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TikTok isn’t going anywhere, despite deadline for sale passing

The clock has run out on the time given to TikTok to sell to a U.S. company, but it looks like the app will not be banned after all.
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On Nov. 27, 2020, NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins checks out radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment that seeks to optimize plant growth in the unique environment of space and evaluate nutrition and taste of the plants.

Vegetables that are out of this world: Radishes grown in space for first time

In a step forward toward true space foods, radishes have been grown and harvested on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time.
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How to watch Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft deliver a slice of asteroid today

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will soon be returning a precious sample of asteroid to Earth, and we've got the details on how you can watch the delivery live.
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Amazon Slashes Price of MacBook Air for Cyber Week — SAVE $200

You can save $200 on a brand new MacBook Air, with $150 slashed from the price plus an extra $50 off at checkout, bringing the price down from $1,000 to $800.
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Save $50 on AirPods Pro at Staples following Cyber Monday

The AirPods Pro are on sale for only $199 at Staples following Cyber Monday. You'll need to act fast, though: This offer won't last long.
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The best Sony WH-1000XM3 deal is at Amazon for Cyber Monday

The Sony WH-1000XM3s are on sale at Amazon for just $220 for Cyber Monday, which is a reduction of $130 from their usual price of $350.
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Save $425 on this BenQ 4K Projector at Amazon for Black Friday

If you want the cinema experience at home, this BenQ 4K projector is a massive $425 off at Amazon, bringing its price down to $1,024.
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This Full HD projector is just $60 at Amazon for Black Friday (seriously!)

This incredible deal on Amazon means you can pick up a Full HD projector for the crazy low price of just $60
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How to watch SpaceX launch its 16th Starlink mission today

SpaceX's plan to launch its 16th Starlink flight on Sunday was called off in order to make additional checks. Another launch attempt may take place Tuesday.
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Twitter bug causes Fleets to remain visible after 24 hours

A bug in Twitter's new Fleets feature allows the content of fleets to be visible after 24 hours, even after they are supposed to be deleted.
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This composite, false-color image of Mount Sharp inside Gale crater on Mars shows geologists a changing planetary environment. On Mars, the sky is not blue, but the image was made to resemble Earth so that scientists could distinguish stratification layers.

Ancient ‘megaflood’ on Mars shows planet was once capable of supporting life

A new study finds the Gale Crater on Mars was the site of an ancient megaflood, providing evidence this location could once have been habitable.
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Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter telescope in November of 2020.

The end of Arecibo: The era of giant telescopes is coming to a close

One of astronomy's most famous telescopes, the Arecibo Observatory, is shutting down. And its closure may mark the beginning of the end for giant telescopes.
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This illustration shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's nose cone, with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite inside, shortly before launch.

NASA and SpaceX successfully launch Sentinel-6 ocean-monitoring satellite

We'll soon learn more about ocean levels and how they are affected by climate change than ever before, thanks to the launch of the Sentinel-6 satellite.
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Hear the sounds of NASA’s Perseverance rover traveling through space

If you want to check in on NASA's Perseverance rover, you can hear audio picked up by its onboard microphone as it cruises through space at 26,000 mph.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 crew members are seen seated in the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft during crew equipment interface training.

NASA and SpaceX successfully launch first operational Crew Dragon mission

NASA and SpaceX made history tonight, with the successful launch of the new Crew Dragon capsule on its first operational mission.
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Qualcomm will be allowed to sell 4G chips to Huawei despite ban

Qualcomm will be allowed to sell chips to Huawei, having been granted an exception from the U.S.'s ban on trade with the Chinese company.
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Mars is losing water due to heat and dust storms, NASA finds

Researchers using the MAVEN orbiter have found that Mars is losing water, as vapor is sucked up from polar ice caps during the Martian summer.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LRG-3-817, also known as SDSS J090122.37+181432.3. The galaxy, its image distorted by the effects of gravitational lensing, appears as a long arc to the left of the central galaxy cluster.

Hubble captures a galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing

An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy that has been warped and distorted by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
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Coronavirus vaccine researchers are being targeted by cyberattacks

Pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers working on a coronavirus vaccine have been the target of hacking attacks, a new report from Microsoft says.
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SpaceX’s latest Starship static fire test didn’t go as planned

SpaceX performed a static fire test of its Starship prototype, but not all went as planned, with some unknown substance dripping from its base during the test.
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A hot planet transits in front of its parent star in this artist impression of an exoplanet system.

European Space Agency begins work on new spacecraft for studying hot exoplanets

The European Space Agency has begun work on a new telescope: A survey mission called Ariel which will investigate warm and hot exoplanets.
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Artist's conception of short gamma-ray burst 200522A, the result of what scientists have confirmed to be the brightest kilonova ever recorded, at ten times brighter than the next closest observed event.

Dramatic luminous kilonova is 10 times brighter than predicted

Researchers have investigated the most luminous kilonova ever seen, and they think that it could have caused the birth of a massive star called a magnetar.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe preserves an ancient habitable environment.

Curiosity snaps a selfie as it explores ‘Mary Anning’ on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover is keeping busy with its research, and has recently snapped a striking selfie as it explores a region known as 'Mary Anning.'
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How to watch the first operational Crew Dragon launch today

NASA and SpaceX will soon be making their first operational launch of the new Crew Dragon capsule, and you can watch the launch live.
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Members of the NTU research team include Dr Long Yi (left), Senior Lecturer at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, and PhD student Wang Shancheng (right).

Liquid windows can turn opaque in the heat and save energy

A team of scientists has developed a 'liquid window' panel which can change opacity to help conserve energy and keep people indoors more comfortable.
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Australia is building one of the world’s largest batteries using Tesla tech

Australia is building one of the world's largest batteries, the Victorian Big Battery Megapack, using Tesla technology.
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Artist's impression of a galaxy surrounded by gravitational distortions due to dark matter. Galaxies live inside larger concentrations of invisible dark matter (coloured purple in this image), however the dark matter's effects can be seen by looking at the deformations of background galaxies.

Researchers come up with new method to ‘see’ dark matter

A small group of astronomers have come up with a way to 'see' dark matter by using current telescopes to measure the rotation of distant galaxies.
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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite undergoes final preparations in a clean room at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for an early November launch.

NASA prepares to launch Sentinel-6 satellite to study sea level rise

NASA is preparing for the launch of its newest spacecraft which will monitor changes in sea levels -- a potentially devastating indicator of climate change.
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Scientists from Cornell and Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología have found that Earth’s most arid desert – Chile’s Atacama Desert, shown above – may hold a key to finding microbial life on Mars.

The driest place on Earth might hold the key to finding life on Mars

Scientists have investigated the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, which could give clues to finding evidence of ancient Martian life.
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Virgin Galactic to launch first crewed test flight from New Mexico this month

Virgin Galactic is coming closer to bringing paying tourists to the edge of space, perform its first crewed test flight from Spaceport America later this month.
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Stretchable, self-healing, recyclable device could be the future of wearables

A team of scientists has developed a stretchable, self-healing, recyclable electronic device which could be the future of wearables.
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This artist's impression of a magnetar in outburst, showing complex magnetic field structure and beamed emission, is here imagined as following a crust-cracking episode.

Strange radio burst discovered in Milky Way for first time, source identified

One of the more mysterious phenomena discovered in space are fast radio bursts, or FRBs. Now, an FRB has been discovered in our own galaxy for the first time.
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Artist’s impression of the lava planet K2-141b. At the center of the large illuminated region there is an ocean of molten rock overlain by an atmosphere of rock vapour. Supersonic winds blow towards the frigid and airless nightside, condensing into rock rain and snow, which sluggishly flow back to the hottest region of the magma ocean.

Rain of rocks falls on this planet with a temperature of 3,000°C

It's been a hellish week here on Earth, but it could be worse -- we could be on K2-141b, a lava planet with some of the most extreme weather ever discovered.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of satellite megaconstellations

Satellite megaconstellations like Starlink could bring broadband internet to underserved parts of the globe -- but they also have some big drawbacks.
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